April Ashley

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‎‎April Ashley is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was famously outed as a transsexual by the British press in 1961. After an unhappy childhood in Liverpool, as one of six children of a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother, she moved to Paris in the 1950s and joined the cast of the cabaret show at the Carousel theater with the famous French entertainer Coccinelle. She had an early sex reassignment procedure in 1960 in Casablanca, …